Police Make Arrest In Prospect Sunoco Robbery

PROSPECT — — Police have arrested a man in connection with an armed robbery at a Sunoco station in August. Two clerks were bound during the incident, according to police.

Vincent Tillery, 37, of Waterbury has been charged with first-degree robbery, second-degree kidnapping, criminal use of a firearm, first-degree reckless endangerment, as well as second-degree and third-degree larceny.

Police said that Tillery was arrested following a multi-jurisdictional investigation into numerous armed robberies.

The robbery happened on August 23, when a man armed with a handgun entered the Waterbury Road convenience store, demanded money, tied the clerks up in a back storage room and then stole a clerk's car to flee.